In 1995, bands occupied 41% of the charts- compared to just 4% in 2023. 30 years later, what happened to music? The decline of the band is featured in today’s Chartbook Top Links: https://tinyurl.com/4arbthjh.
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The current major label strategy consists in unearthing influencers that already are complete products, who do their marketing themselves. That these are individuals, not groups, should be not surprising.
Also, charts have entirely ceased to reflect any kind of generally shared music culture: they long lost any connection to being an indicator of a sorts of "everybody at least knows these artists".
This is all just (algorithm-based) streaming service playlist nonsense now.
To be fair, the shared knowledge about current artists likely ended in the later half of the 2000s with the death of music television (and thus, single platforms of universal reach, with fixed programs that everyone consumed).
It became easier through technology to recreate what a singer might call the Ancillary parts of their band. The music is still band music, such that it would probably sound better if an actual band performed it.
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This is all just (algorithm-based) streaming service playlist nonsense now.
Assuming you mean Top 40 ish stuff here